Bromeliad Cultivar Register (270)

AECHMEA ‘Hayward’

Hayward W (Frase*)

1961

cv. of orlandiana obtained by Mr. Wyndham Hayward from the Florida Plant Introduction Board - Bill Frase describes it as "more perfect, larger and stronger" - used by Frase in his continued mixed hybridization of the progeny of 'Bert', 'Black Marble', 'Pickaniny' & 'Shadow' keeping the darkest and most extraordinary to use in further hybridization. Orlandiana Group